RESULTS: PSA Challenger 5 Australia Day Challenge, Brisbane,
Australia
Kiwi Coll
Captures Australia Day Title
New Zealander
Paul Coll claimed his maiden PSA World Tour title - and put paid
to a home winner of the Australia Day Challenge - when he beat Adelaide's
Justin Beard in today's final of the PSA Challenger 5 squash event
in its fourth successive year at Northern Suburbs Squash Centre in
Brisbane.
Top seed Coll,
a 20-year-old from Auckland, dismissed fellow countryman Lance James Beddoes
in just 26 minutes in the semi-finals to reach the first Tour final of his
career.
Beard, the
second seed, was taken the full distance in the other semi before overcoming
Hong Kong's unseeded Cheuk Yan Tang in a 76-minute marathon.
But cool
customer Coll needed just 31 minutes to ensure his title triumph, beating
25-year-old Beard 11-5, 11-8, 11-5 to become the first Kiwi winner of the title.